by David Gumpert | Jun 17, 2013 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Research |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had no hesitancy about spending taxpayer dollars to promote its viewpoint that raw milk is a mortal danger. A couple years back, I called the FDA on its practice, after it spent nearly $2,500 with a press release...
by David Gumpert | May 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
I’ve seen the video at least twice now, the one of Wisconsin food inspector Cathy Anderson throwing blue dye into a vat containing hundreds of gallons of Vernon Hershberger’s raw milk that fateful second day of June, 2010. But each time, as the ribbon of...
by David Gumpert | May 18, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The trial of raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger, due to begin Monday in Baraboo, WI, is becoming not just a big legal and political event, but a big media event as well. The Wisconsin media have picked up on the plans for a major gathering of food rights...
by David Gumpert | May 13, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The criminal misdemeanor trial of Vernon Hershberger is a week off, and I find myself wondering…Is there any other country (aside from Canada) in todays crazy mixed-up world that would devote the resources the U.S. is devoting to punishing a farmer for selling...
by David Gumpert | May 5, 2013 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Government scientists have examined an outbreak of 148 illnesses from campylobacter last year at The Family Cow dairy in Pennsylvania, and concluded its impossible to produce raw milk safely. This supposedly scientific report, by scientists of the U.S....
by David Gumpert | May 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Maines food sovereignty movement took a hit when a state judge ruled earlier this week that farmer Dan Brown must have a license to sell raw milk, despite his towns ordinance exempting local farmers from state food regulations. The judge was ruling in response...
by David Gumpert | Apr 28, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Raw Milk |
Now that a Wisconsin judge has rejected raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger’s religious freedom arguments to justify having a witness testify on his behalf, his trial looks likely to go forward as scheduled beginning May 20.As proceedings draw closer, we will no...
by David Gumpert | Apr 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk |
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting a food writer I have long admired–Tom Philpott, who produces the great Mother Jones food blog. Ive known him for probably five or six years, beginning when I wrote for Grist when he was the editor, but we had never...
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